ponstrans

Unofficial client for PONS online dictionary

Description

Translates words scraping https://en.pons.com/ in the background.

Supported languages:

"ar": "Arabic",
"bg": "Bulgarian",
"zh": "Chinese",
"nl": "Dutch",
"en": "English",
"fr": "French",
"de": "German",
"el": "Greek",
"it": "Italian",
"la": "Latin",
"pl": "Polish",
"pt": "Portuguese",
"ru": "Russian",
"sl": "Slovenian",
"es": "Spanish",
"tr": "Turkish",
"cs": "Czech",
"da": "Danish",
"hu": "Hungarian",
"no": "Norwegian",
"sv": "Swedish",
"lb": "Elvish"

Installation

pip install ponstrans

Usage

>>> from ponstrans import translate
>>> translations = translate(word="hallo", source_language="de", target_language="en")
>>> translations[:2]
[{'source': 'hallo', 'target': 'hello'}, {'source': 'hallo (zur Begrüßung)', 'target': 'hi'}]

Note

The performance is quite bad because it scrapes the whole html page in the background. Use the official (paid) API for better performance: https://en.pons.com/p/online-dictionary/developers/api